Browsing Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) by Subject "Rural poverty"

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    • Access to land and rural poverty in South Africa 

      Cousins, Ben (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2012-09)
      The big picture: some history • Large-scale land dispossession from 1652 into the late 20th century • 1913 and 1936 Land Acts: African majority confined to 13% of country • Forced removals in apartheid years: 2.5 million ...

    • Introduction: Agrarian change, rural poverty and land reform in South Africa since 1994 

      Bernstein, Henry; Cousins, Ben; Peters, Pauline E.; O'Laughlin, Bridget (Blackwell Publishing, 2013)
      This introduction sketches the context and dynamics of agrarian change, rural poverty and land reform since the end of apartheid in 1994, drawing attention to structural continuities and new elements in the countrysides ...

    • The social dynamics of rural poverty in the Eastern Cape 

      Neves, David (2017)
      Overview • Structural poverty & its causes • Understanding impoverished livelihoods : i. Social grants ii. Informal economic activity • Social dynamics • ‘Informal social protection’ • The downside of ‘social capital’